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STRAUSS Alpine Symphony

Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is an object lesson in imaginative orchestration, a collaborative musical workout that challenges players, conductor and listeners...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 13 PROKOFIEV October Cantata (excpts)

This searing live performance of the 13th Symphony was only its second in public and according to the Soviet authorities...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2014

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 - 6

Reviewing Gergiev’s previous recordings of these symphonies with the same (but since renamed) orchestra, I summed them up as frustratingly...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue:

SCHUMANN Symphonies Nos 1-4

What blessed times these are for Schumannistas. Hard on the heels not only of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s compelling survey of the...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2014

SCHULHOFF Concertos for Piano, Flue & Piano and String Quartet

Here are three substantial concertos from the pen of the Czech-Jewish composer Ervín Schulhoff (1894-1942), the earliest being the second...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014

RESPIGHI The Birds. Three Botticelli Pictures. Suite

Inquisitive disc-buyers will almost certainly alight on tracks 10 13 of this one. If the Trittico botticelliano and Gli uccelli...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2014

RÄIHÄLÄ Peat, Smoke and Seaweed Storm

There aren’t many classical works inspired by football – Benedict Mason’s opera Playing Away, Martinů’s Half-Time – but none hitherto...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2014

PUW Orchestral Works

Among Welsh composers of the younger generation, Guto Pryderi Puw (b1971) looks likely to achieve real prominence. This disc of...

Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2014

MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 22 & 24

Angela Hewitt continues her Mozart series with Hannu Lintu, switching from her Italian orchestra to the Canadian National Arts Centre...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2014

MAHLER Symphony No 9

Michael Schønwandt’s own programme notes are candid and concise: an assignment taken at four days’ notice to replace an ailing...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2014

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